A firefighter cleared debris and burning pieces of the interior of a unit after the roof had collapsed in Brookline. Jan. 16, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

As confetti began to fall, the Boston College Eagles celebrated their National Championship victory over the Ferris State Bulldogs. April 7, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo and Miami Heat small forward Shane Battier battled for a loose ball in the first quarter of game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals at American Airlines Arena in Miami. June 5, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Boston Red Sox right fielder Cody Ross was showered with Gatorade as he reached home plate after hitting a game winning 3-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Boston Red Sox took on the Chicago White Sox at Fenway Park. July 19, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

In a moment of frustration, Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz snapped his bat into two pieces after lining out in the eighth inning against the Baltimore Orioles. May 5, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

St. John's Prep head coach James O'Leary was hoisted upon the shoulders of his players after St. Johns defeated Brockton in the Division I High School Super Bowl Championship game at Bentley University in Waltham. Dec. 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

The gloves (and sticks) came off as the Bruins’ Shawn Thornton and the Jets’ Mark Stuart engaged in a second period fight. Jan. 10, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Celtics head coach Doc Rivers (left) and Kevin Garnett shared a moment on the sidelines as Garnett left the game as the clock was winding down. June 9, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Long time Red Sox catcher and former team captain Jason Varitek announced his retirement from baseball during a ceremony held at home plate of JetBlue Park. March 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick lost his helmet as he was leveled by Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes, who was called for a penalty on the play. Nov. 11, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Tigers second baseman Omar Infante got a face full of dirt, but he made a great diving stop of a ball hit by the Red Sox’ Ryan Sweeney. July 30, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Jamie Sawler of the Muddas made an interception against the Cumberland Muckaneers. Mud football teams competed in the annual Mud Bowl, a mud football tournament in North Conway, N.H., at Hog Coliseum. Sept. 7, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Paul Ouellette and his racing family from Milan, N.H., posed for a photo after his 15-year-old daughter Nicole (with checkered flag) won the Angels division. Aug. 25, 2012.

Bill Greene/Globe Staff
| January 4, 2013

Ariel Switser, 10, put on her game face at the annual car show at the Riverside Speedway the day before opening day. "Ariel's been waiting," said her father. Howie Switser. "She wanted to race a couple of years ago but wasn't old enough."

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| January 4, 2013

Marlene Texeira of Dorchester and St. Peter's parishioners performed the Stations of the Cross ritual on Good Friday in the Geneva-Bowdoin neighborhood. Each of the 14 stops marked the location of a victim of a stabbing or shooting. This was intersection of Homes and Draper. April 6, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Kevin White’s niece, Beth Casey, and her son Tommy waited for the funeral procession of former the former Boston mayor at St. Cecilia Church. Feb. 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Dancers took a ballet "with a modern sensibility" class from Marcus Schulkind at the Green Street Studios. April 29, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Near the end of service, the congregation at Grant AME Church, where Donna Summer once worshipped, held hands and sang. May 20, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

BC men's head hockey coach Jerry York stepped out of a meeting to take a good-luck call from Senator John Kerry. March 29, 2012.

Pete Fraunholtz of Jamaica Plain got in about 50 minutes of cross-country skiing through the golf course in Franklin Park. "It was a little thin in parts, but I forced myself to get out," he said. Jan. 22, 2012.

An orphanage in Port-au-Prince was destroyed, leaving a group of 60 orphans without a place to live. For a year and a half, they lived in primitive conditions, at first in tents, and then in flimsy plywood structures next to a house covered with a tarp. They had no running water, no electricity, and little in the way of schooling. May 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Filis Casey, of Newton, reached out to the families of adoptive children she has placed over the past 30 years, and within months raised enough money to build the displaced children an orphanage. Casey greeted Bernadine, 11, with a lollipop. May 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Elizabeth Warren voted and greeted supporters at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge. Nov. 6, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Kaplan Family Hospice House is a 20-bed facility run by Hospice of the North Shore & Greater Boston. The house provided end-of-life care, along with grief resources, for families. Patrick the hospice dog visited with Mary and Warren Rand. Sept. 12, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Joe Kennedy III and his then-fiance Lauren Birchfield was greeted at the door by his mother, Sheila Kennedy and sister-in-law Kate Kennedy during an election night party at the Taunton Elks Lodge. August 6, 2012.

Brattleboro-area middle school teacher Lauren Petrie, right, and student Adelaide Abbott, 14, took a sun break during a school outing at Mt. Snow in West Dover, Vt. March 21, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Fan Jayne Perreault of Chicopee chatted with a friend while attending the Red Sox's annual "Christmas at Fenway" in Boston. Dec. 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Boston police Officer Dan McMorrow paused to encourage Owen Cunningham, 11, of Dorchester, who played Irish folk tunes for passerbys on Boylston Street in Boston's Back Bay to save up money for an upcoming trip to Ireland with the Congress School of Music in Quincy. Dec. 1,2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Holding her King Charles dog, Charlie, Associate Justice Randy J. Kaplan of Middlesex Probate and Family Court celebrated during the 10th annual National Adoption Day at Edward Brooke Courthouse in Boston. Nov. 16, 2012.

Marine Corps veteran Natasha Young-Alicea of Haverhill returned from working at the Vet Center with a migraine and tried to get some relief resting on her couch with her service dog Josh. June 25, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Assistant teacher Livi Rubin passed a butterfly to Benjamin Levit, 5, of Lexington at the Jewish Preschool of Lexington, where the butterflies were raised from larva stage. May 9, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Marine Corps veteran Natasha Young-Alicea of Haverhill hugged Evelyn Harris as she met the parents of Navy SEAL Joshua Harris, for whom her service dog is named in Lexington, N.C. June 15, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Maria Teixiera, 58, distraught over the shooting death of her son, Safiro Furtado, in the South End, was surrounded by relatives and friends in the entryway of her home. July 17, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Several hundred people gathered at the Scituate Harbor lighthouse at dawn for an Easter morning service led by Pastor Dan Eddy of Christ Lutheran Church in Scituate. April 8, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Rawda Aljawhary, a junior at Brandeis University, leaped through sprinklers that showered students with relief during the summer-like day. March 22, 2012.

Boston's Veterans Day Parade wound its way from the Boston Common to City Hall, where it culminated in speeches and music. Nov. 11, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Israel "Izzy" Arbeiter watched as Jim Karpeichik illuminated the dank cellar of Arbeiter’s childhood home in Plock, Poland, to look for candlesticks that he and his brother buried during World War II. April 25, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Sunrise lit the sky with color at Carson Beach in South Boston. Sept. 6, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Recruit Taishana Lewis held her 5-year-old son Tyler in line at her graduation ceremony from the Boston EMS Academy. She was inspired to become an EMT by those who responded when her brother, Matthew Lewis-Grant (right) was wounded in a 2009 drive-by shooting. Dec. 3, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Ian Reynolds of Newton took a break on Devonshire Street, where he worked in costume at Merchant Warehouse. Oct. 31, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Eighth-graders at the Sullivan Middle School in Lowell held out their hands to shake with Senator Scott Brown as he asked the kids to tell their parents to vote for him. Nov. 6, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

John Coyne of the Romero Electric Co. and co-workers checked out the W sign at 263 Congress St. in Boston. Sept. 17, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Pedestrians bundled up on Church Street in Harvard Square. Feb. 8, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

A street scene in Cidade Velhia, Cape Verde. April 12, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Thomas Hazley, 8, and Conor Weeks, 6, horsed around in Joe Moakley Park in South Boston before the beginning of the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K fitness walk.

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| January 4, 2013

Soloist Adiarys Almeida kidded around as the dancers tried on the company's new costumes of the Nutcracker.

A funeral Mass was held at Saint Cecilia Church for former Boston Mayor Kevin White. Feb. 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

A hawk sat on a branch above a pond in Pembroke as an oriole swooped down to chase it away. June 19, 2012.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
| January 4, 2013

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan were framed through the photographer’s ladder during a photo shoot of staff members before the final night of the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla. Aug. 30, 2102.

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| January 4, 2013

A woman tried to control a screaming relative outside the courthouse as verdicts were read in the first Mattapan massacre trial. March 22, 2012.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
| January 4, 2013

Seamus Healy of West Dennis drove an antique MG down with a stuffed wild boar in the front seat during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in West Dennis. March 10, 2012.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
| January 4, 2013

Reading Memorial player Siobhan O'Sullivan (#12) and Melissa Liaboe (#24) celebrated their victory over Tyngsborough in the MIAA State Basketball Championships in Worcester. March 17, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Participants at Boston Assemblies danced to disco music as they learned social dance and etiquette instruction at Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham. Nov. 13, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Participants at Boston Assemblies in Hingham looked on as teacher Douglas Trudeau (left) went through dance steps at Glastonbury Abbey. Nov. 13, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Abington's Babila Fonkem (10) celebrated his team’s victory over St. Mary’s in the High School Super Bowl in Milton. Dec. 1, 2012.

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| January 4, 2013

Chuck Mattera took part in the Santa Speedo Run with runners dressed as Santa in red speedos on Boylston Street. Dec. 8, 2012.